Touching the void

In the opening paragraph the writer does a great job of creating tension He shows this by quoting, ‘There was no need for this torture’ and  ‘I lolled on the rope, scarcely available to hold my head up’. This created tension by making you imagine what it was like to be there.

  He also tells you that he’s felling petrified, distressed and restless, as he’s hanging off an edge of a cliff. He shows this by asking frequent question such as, ‘How long will you be Simon?’ How long before you join me?’He also shows this by quoting ‘The rope jolted down a few inches’ and ‘I wanted with all my heart for this to finish’. This created tension by making you feel what he is feeling.

 In the end paragraph he falls. The writer says ‘The rope lashed violently against my face and I fell silently ,endlessly into nothingness as dreaming of falling’, meaning the rope was cut, it hit him in the face hard, and falling felt like he thought it would. This created tension by varying the sentence lengths.